For reviewers

Review is the part of Artist Alley you come back to daily. What ships today: the post detail view, comments, likes, and a review canvas. Review-queue state tracking and live-presenter sessions are on the roadmap.

The post detail modal

Clicking any post card on the browse feed opens the post detail modal as an overlay (the URL becomes /?post={id}). The same view is also reachable directly at /posts/{id} — share the link and the recipient lands on the same view in standalone mode.

The layout is two-pane on desktop:

• Left, ~70% of the width — the preview pane. Renders the currently-selected member asset.
• Right — a collapsible sidebar with author, posted-at, visibility, tags, description, member list (for multi-asset posts), per-asset metadata fields, and the actions toolbar (like, comment, review).

Toggle the sidebar with the i hotkey.

Multi-asset posts

When a post has more than one member asset, the preview pane becomes a vertical scroller with one full-height slide per member. Scroll-snap aligns each member to the viewport; the footer thumb strip mirrors the same list, so you can click a thumbnail to jump. The strip itself collapses, and you keep an “n / total” position indicator even when it’s hidden.

Review mode

The toolbar has a Review toggle. Switching to review mode hides the sidebar, expands the preview pane to fill the modal, and turns the canvas into a zoom / pan / tile surface:

• Mouse wheel + Ctrl — zoom in / out.
• Click + drag — pan around the zoomed image.
• Tile mode — repeat the image as a pattern at its natural pixel size, useful for tileable textures.

Per-asset annotation pins — comments anchored to a spot on the image — are on the roadmap for the annotations phase. The canvas and zoom are the foundation those attach to.

Comments

Each post has a comment thread anchored to it. Comments support plain prose and a subset of Markdown. The post author sees comments in real time once you submit; presence and typing indicators come later.

Comment moderation (admin-controlled approval, banned users, auto-flagging rules) is on the roadmap for the community / moderation phase. The data model already accommodates it.

Likes

The heart icon on the actions toolbar toggles a like for the current user. Like counts show on the post card in the feed and on the modal toolbar. Likes feed trending scoring (the middle filter on the browse footer); a future analytics surface reads the same engagement signal.

What’s coming

The review experience builds out in three follow-up phases:

• Review queue + state tracking — “show me unreviewed posts since my last session, in the order they were posted.” Tracks per-user read state.
• Annotations — position-anchored comments on images, video timestamps, and 3D viewpoints.
• Live presenter sessions — SSE-driven sync review where one person drives the modal for an audience.

The order of those is shaped by what teams ask for first. If you’re a studio piloting Artist Alley, file an issue describing your daily review loop — that’s the most useful input we get.